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The first poem, Horatius, describes how Publius Horatius and two companions, Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius, hold the Sublician bridge, the only span crossing the Tiber at Rome, against the Etruscan army of Lars Porsena, King of Clusium. The three heroes are willing to die in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the bridge, and sacking ...
Horatius Cocles, a fanciful 1586 engraving by Hendrick Goltzius.. Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium. [1]
The legend of Publius Horatius Cocles at the bridge appears in many classical authors, most notably in Livy.. After the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC, the exile of the royal family and the king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and the establishment of the Roman Republic, Tarquinius sought military aid to regain the throne from the Etruscan king of Clusium, Lars Porsena.
Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, father of the consul of 509, and according to legend, grandfather of Publius Horatius Cocles. [19] Marcus Horatius M. f. Pulvillus, consul suffectus in 509 BC, the first year of the Republic; he was consul again in 507. [20] [21] [22] Gaius Horatius M. f. M. n. Pulvillus, consul in 477 and 457 BC; he defeated the Aequi.
Gaius Mucius Cordus, better known with his later cognomen Scaevola (/ ˈ s iː v ə l ə, ˈ s ɛ v-/ SE(E)V-ə-lə, Latin: [ˈskae̯wɔla]), was an ancient Roman youth, possibly mythical, famous for his bravery. In 508 BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium, the Clusian king Lars Porsena laid siege to Rome.
The pseudonym chosen by Bentzel-Sternau refers to Horatius Cocles (cocles: Latin for "one-eyed man"), who was a folk hero of Roman mythology. In 507 B.C. he is said to have defended the bridge over the Tiber to Rome alone against the Etruscans.
pōns sublicius iter paene hostibus dedit, nī ūnus vir fuisset, Horātius Cocles (Livy) [39] 'the bridge on wooden piles almost gave an entrance to the enemy, had it not been for one man, Horatius Cocles' Less often nī is used in open conditions: vāpulābis, nī hīnc abīs (Plautus) [40] 'you'll get a flogging, if you don't go away from here'
The "three men" may refer to Horatius Cocles and his two companions who defended the Sublician Bridge, a legend recounted in Macaulay's poem "Horatius, published as part of the Lays of Ancient Rome, in 1842, or alternatively to the three assassins of Julius Caesar (Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus) who aimed to ...